life
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Healing in the Land of My Affliction: Learning to Begin Again
Rebuilding oneself after a setback Continue reading
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Resilience Is Not Enough, We Are Built to Last
A reflection on an experience showing more than resilience Continue reading
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My Secret Garden
how to heal Continue reading
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I shall not compare
When you were born to morning’s gentle light,And I when western shadows claimed the sky,Should we accuse the stars that shine so bright?Should we demand the Maker tell us why? When first you touched the earth in cloth so fair,With… Continue reading
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Between Siam and Tomorrow: Day 1
Day 1: “Mai pen rai” Today I came here to secure a gate pass. It is one small step toward what I hope will be a better future. The airport officer has noted this is my second visit. My second… Continue reading
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When the storm chose us
I have protested,we called it “we,”yet never oncedid it become “us.” I lingeredbetween hurting and healing,between trembling fearand faithful feeling. We stoodwhere resilience met ruin,where every promisewas already undoing. Since the dawn of days,I answered your invitation. You welcomed meinto… Continue reading
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“We,” you said
“We,” you said,but there was never us,only promises fadinginto silence and dust. It was never a mistaketo care for someone.The cost of betrayal,for being a cowardand not fighting for what you love and care,is the greatest evil of love.For love… Continue reading
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A Dance of Grief and Grace: Poetic Insights
Before your grief began to show,you opened wide a world I’d know,a lush realm bathed in golden hue,where dawn broke soft with morning dew. In my room, the light would climb,through rainforest canopies, lush and prime;each sunrise painted skies with… Continue reading
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Cada cosa a su tiempo: “Everything in its own time.”
There were things in life we encounterthat from the first time we see them,we already sense their grandeur,how valuable,how precious,how marvelous! We were so excited as they stepped unto our door,and we reached for them with our hands, with warm… Continue reading
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The Man of Diamonds and his Grief
when he retreated, it’s not the fear of them,he looked cold and weak, condemned by hem,misanthrope, nonchalant in every theme,uncaring and selfish, that’s how he’d seem. yet beneath the bright lights, sharp and keen,and radiant streaks of his diamond sheen,where… Continue reading
